On 29, DPRK carried out a ballistic missile launch test, that lasted for approximately 15mins. It appeared to have failed according to ROK news agency Yonhap. At the same time, (bear in mind that there is no President of ROK at the moment), the US military has started deploying parts of the THAAD anti-missile system into a designated site in South Korea, and this has generated clashes with police.

Admiral Harris, US Navy Pacific Fleet commander said: “We can bring these forces from all around the Pacific to focus on North Korea if need be. #FightTonight” at a Congress meeting last week. (Add in this tone and the style of language expressed, it is quite disturbing.)

A group of Russian navy Pacific Fleet ships encountered the “USS Carl Vinson” group in the Sea of Japan this week. In Russian

The “Admiral Nevelskoy” is on route to Vladivostok, sailed past the US Navy escorts and the aircraft carrier. The two destroyers Arleigh Burke class destroyers were the “USS Wayne E. Meyer” and “USS Michael Murphy”,(DDG-112) along with an ROK warship, “Wang Geon”.

This week, USAF bombers, including 2 B-1 Lancers from Guam, took part in drills with South Korean airforce fighters, as well with the USS Carl Vinson group.

Earlier on the 28 April, the USS “Wayne E Meyer” (DDG108), along with ROK “Wang Geon” (978), patrolled together in the Yellow Sea region west of the Korean peninsula this week, while the USS Carl Vinson was with the JMSDF. In short- busy waterways for quite a few navies.

Russian Navy’s, project 861, Moma-class Intelligence gathering ship, (AGI),” Liman” was sunk 17nm north of the Bosporus, after being holed in a collision with a cargo ship, Togo-flagged ” Youzarsif H”, just before 08.41 UTC.

It seems that apparently Youzarsif H” hit “Liman“ since its hull was breached below the waterline in the engine room, (side on). In Russian

This happened in dense fog, prompt response by the Turkish Coastguard enabled all of the crew to be rescued, who were then transferred to a Turkish warship. Some went from a Turkish vessel back onto a Russian ship according to some media sources. The Liman wasn’t scheduled to transit Turkish straits, so it is assumed that it was on a mission or awaiting orders, in the Black Sea, for another “meet & greet” with NATO units. It appears that some of the crew had a couple of hours to destroy, remove & evacuate sensitive materials & equipment before it ultimately sank at 11:48 UTC.

According to the Russian media, the Russian ship “Ulus-Star” was nearby to assist the stricken ship, maybe with the equipment and materials, to then go back to Sevastopol, allegedly. So it said openly in the media. However, on the following day, the AIS data showed the “Ulus Star” was at anchorage off the Bosphorus entrance. Maybe another ship did the relay work? The information presented is still confusing. Let’s hope so, since on 29 April, Turkey hastily dispatched a specialist ship northwards, through the Bosphorous. But it’s not known whether it went to the site of the sinking. The newly commissioned “TCG Alemdar”, (A582), is submarine rescue mother ship, and so has the equipment & the expertise to carry out deep sea recovery operations.

By nightfall, Russia had quickly deployed several underwater search & salvage ships to the scene of the accident. The Russian flagged survey ship “Heather Sea”, (with ROV capability), seemed to have carried out a comprehensive search track not far from where the Liman sunk. (But this might just be the initial survey work for Gazprom’s “Turkish Stream” pipeline, however timing is rather unfortunate).

It remains to be seen whether there will be some salvage/ partial equipment recovery attempt made, (or destruction of equipment), given the ultra-secret nature of onboard electronic & cryptographic hardware equipment. A race was probably underway to secure the rest of equipment before NATO does. The Russian MoD has said that recovering the Liman is “inexpedient” as ship is very old. In Russian .

Russian research ship HEATHER SEA on search pattern over location of sinking RusNavy Liman. + other Rus ship on scene. No tourists! pic.twitter.com/cZ2sh0lyl0

A note on AGI, practically all of the Russian fleet is ex-Soviet in origin, they are not purposely built warships with armaments and so military standards of construction. The US Navy dropped using AGIs after both the loss of USS Pueblo and Liberty. It should not be confused with their larger counterparts, such as the well-known “Viktor Leonov”, which is a large intelligence vessel or the Vishnaya-class

The Liman was an naval vessel, tasked with capturing electronic-signals intelligence using Soviet-era and Russian-made sensors, (ELINT). Known in Russian as SSV [Sudno Svyazyy = Communications Vessel], otherwise commonly known as medium-intelligence vessel. There were 3 of this type with the Black Sea Fleet. One of the AGI, the ‘Kildin” is in East Med since 5 February.

However, the “Heather Sea” was definitely not in the same vicinity for several days, but about 17nm NE. 2 distinct areas were searched by 2 groups of ships. Judging by the hive of activity in 1 spot though, the Russian Navy has began work on potentially lifting valuable equipment from the wreck. However the Russian MoD denies this is taking place:

Backstory: For those of you who don’t understand how ships can collide despite all modern tech, here is an interesting video of such situation simulated. (add in dense fog, possible crew fatigue & language barrier). Although I think the Liman was at anchor or idling at the time of the collision.

Interesting goodwill deployment, it also shows the capability of the navy to go long-distance voyages. More interesting is that it hasn’t returned back to its Northern Fleet home port. It is probable that it could in Cyprus on port call and temporarily join the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron.

The Russian corvettes “Boikiy” & “Soobrazitelniy” have finished their North Atlantic, as they were escorted through Belgium EEZ, on 25/26 April.

has indeed left the Baltic port of Kronstadt on 26 April, and has transited through Channel, after being met by the Dutch navy, on its way to Black Sea. No lurid MSM headlines about the Russian Navy this time!

This is good news for the Black Sea Fleet, as its permanent basing in the region, will help to balance the deployment of modern warships between the eastern Med and the Black Sea, in a time of heightened crisis.

By coincidence, the “Admiral Essen”‘might just cross paths, with the “Shtandart”, a replica Peter the Great’s frigate, sailing off Portugal. Now that would a good photo opportunity.

Future projects and new builds

As anticipated due to the snags encountered in the current naval ship building program, the likely construction start of the first Russian Navy, Project 23560, Leader-class (new generation of Nuclear-Powered) Destroyers, will slip further behind.

The 2nd of the project 11711, “Petr Morgunov” to set to be launched this summer. sea trials of the 1st one, the large landing ship “Ivan Gren”, are ongoing in the Baltic Sea. The 11711 project became more important following the cancellation of the Mistral-class delivery in 2014.

The Type 45 destroyer “HMS Daring” sailed from Romania to continue her operational deployment in the Black Sea,” in a press release. Following on this, “HMS Daring” went to Bulgaria before returning through the Bosporous on 29 April, after 5 days in total.

At time, when 7th May will soon be commemorated, a brief detour into one event that took place off Crimea during the 2nd World War, near Evpatoria. A team of deep-sea diving researchers discovered a Soviet ship captured by the Germans in 1943, and which subsequently sank in a Soviet bombing raid later in 1943.It is possible that “Kharkov” (Boy Feddersen), has an amount of looted treasure that the Germans pillaged from Crimea. The ship was discovered at a depth of about 90 meters. In Russian

The Russian navy celebrates a first cat on a long range voyage on Russian naval vessels to the Syrian coast. Surely that honour would have gone to the “Admiral Kuznetsov” cats? ( quite possibly back in the mid 90s). Doesn’t the “Varyag” have a cat, since it deployed all of the way from Vladivostok to Syria.? Anyway here’s an article on Russian Sea & river service cats

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“”We can have a joint military exercise any time you want”: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ”

Is that the right one intended?

“The US Navy wants more funding & more submarines to counter the threat from North Korea.”

LOL

“Admiral Harris, US Navy Pacific Fleet commander said: “We can bring these forces from all around the Pacific to focus on North Korea if need be. #FightTonight” at a Congress meeting last week. (Add in this tone and the style of language expressed, it is quite disturbing.)”

Disturbing, but very typical of the subhuman element promoted in the military from the raygun regime on in the zionazi enforcer colony.

Trillions upon trillions must be spent on welfare for Blackwater, Raytheon, Boeing, Bayer-Monsanto, et al. Why fix the planet for 1/10 000th the cost of settling 50 people on Mars? That’ll make America great again! Even if it’s a writhing cesspool of gmo/chemical and radioactive filth, not to mention of unprecedented human misery induced by government procured plague. Geez I hope you minions are getting paid enough to afford the necessary antidotes for when the poop really hits the fan. Let’s hope your virtual bank accounts don’t get zeroed when it’s time to buy the shot.

This is Democracy chers amis!

Did you vote to demonstrate your consent?

The only input required from here on is to clench your buttocks evermore tightly whenever psycopath controlled governments say boo!

Now, please remind yourself of context and circumstances of the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Xinping, when the Donald announced cruise missile strikes on Syria over ‘beautiful’ chocolate cake. Seems they did some business, eh?

You are too dramatic. I see hiring of Erik Prince as he has a skill, that is valuable to the OBOR, so He is hired. No reason to over react.

Chinese traditionally finds the best talent for the job, let him/her be enemy, friends, or relative, good looking or ugly. I wish I can find the expression that from time of SpringFall Warring time, but idea is what I wrote above.

Must be very hard to find that expression. But I know one that might express the nature of Chinese approach and rationale to many issues, particularly in the international arena: inscrutable. Very hard indeed for a Westerner to understand what goes on about China, like paying homage to Trump, calling themselves Communist while carrying on a ruthless capitalist agenda and other gobsmacking incongruities.

As suggested by the very title of Engdahl’s piece: Asking Erik Prince’s FSG (or indeed America in general) to provide security in China’s western regions is like asking the fox to guard the henhouse.

As Engdahl intimates, Xi Jinping is essentially trying to curry favor (or “mediate relations”) with the Americans by hiring Erik Prince, who is a close associate of Trump–and also learn anti-terrorism tactics from them.

However, he further warns, “If that is the case, Chinese authorities might reconsider whether in pursuit of those understandable goals, they have just sanctioned a sly and highly dangerous fox to guard the henhouse called the One Bridge, One Road. Erik Prince, a “former” CIA asset and world leading mercenary, is now in a position to provide Washington with the most intimate intelligence on the development of China’s New Economic Silk Road. As well, he could easily, were he inclined to be immoral, provide CIA terrorist handlers of groups such as ISIS or al Qaeda precise targets for future sabotage or disruption of the new Silk Road project.”

Indeed, America is guilty of sponsoring Uighur jihadist terrorism against China, particularly in the very same Xinjiang region that FSG is now supposed going to provide “security” for.

Engdahl states, “The FSG base in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region will be in the heart of CIA-instigated Uyghur terrorism activities. Xinjiang is home to the CIA-fostered East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) of Al Qaeda, active among Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Xinjiang itself is the crossroads of most major international oil and gas pipelines into China from Kazakhstan, Russia and elsewhere as well as domestic China oilfields.”

The American Empire has been fomenting terrorism in Xinjiang region of China for years–just as it does around the world.

Now, the Americans are manipulating the “anti-terrorism” pretext (such as Prince’s FSG organization) as a way to insinuate themselves into the Chinese One Belt/One Road Eurasian integration projects—and position themselves to destabilize these projects.

Indeed, Eurasian integration is what the Anglo Americans in general have been hostile towards for centuries–from Halford MacKinder and the British Empire to Zbig. Brzezinski and the Anglo-American Empire today.

In short, to allow the Anglo Americans to provide (cough, cough) security in these regions of China is potential suicide.

It is asking the world’s greatest terrorist nation, the United States of America, to provide security against Islamicist terrorism in China, which the USA has been sponsoring for decades!

Some Chinese patriots might even have a good case for accusing Xi Jinping of … treason.

You make the accusation then proceed to substantiate everything that confirms what I have said.

There are no coincidences anonymous, not concerning the long standing relationship between the Chinese Communists and United States, nor including your refusal to risk damaging your credibility by using your usual nom de plume and linking it to the specious introduction of your comment. You are one of the legion of Sunstein’s disinformation warriors, IMHO, and rely on quick or lazy reading so typical of these threads, to get past hard facts and disuade those who might get an inkling of how high level interactions between politician-gangsters are conducted.

The victors of the Opium Wars were the Anglo-British and their Chinese Triad collaborators, the later remaining safely ensconced in their own sub-fiefdom of Hong Kong, and in self-governing China–towns in all major cities of the Empire. This is understood by everyone who bothers to search for the information, including the Russians. If you were interested in understanding the truth you would be addressing the barely concealed history of the United States sponsered Communist takeover of China, instead of nit picking my comment.

The Silk road will be, amongst other things, main route of transit for the long standing opium trade. Erik Prince has been hired to guard Anglo-British Zionist interests, and the very trade which built the Anglo-British Empire and the power of the oligarchy which controls it, lest someone in Russia should get the idea they mght reduce this trade, or else take a bigger cut.

I would not worry about it.
Everyone was so worried about the Chocolate cake a few days ago, it turn out to be a dud. If Chinese can buy Israel’s missile tech, why cannot they hire Erik Prince for his now how?

By the way, I think Mao went to Harvard J.F. Kennedy School of Government, married a JAP(Jewish American Princess) Of Rothschild decent, then time traveled back, with his wife morphed into his three wifes of different time.

1) The global elite is cooperating and competing at the same time. Which means, the whole geopolitics is just a farce played by the meta-conspiracy cabal

or

2) “Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

How shall we know?
Anyway, I forgot to pick
The wild garlic in the forrest
It’s almost too late
But the air is very fresh
Outside
At the theater of the senses
A blessing and a curse

Cracked Harmony
Forgotten Unity
Still so beautiful
Through the tears
Sorrow and hope together
One day…
M.L. King said
And then he slept
Because
One Day…

“This bill, I hope will never be implemented because its implementation envisions a scenario of power with forced inspections of all vessels by US warships,” Konstantin Kosachev said Friday.

His comments follow the reported passage on Thursday of a House bill enhancing sanctions against North Korea, outlining “inspection authorities” over Chinese, Iranian, Syrian and Russian ports. The latter include the ports of Nakhodka, Vanino and Vladivostok.

“Such a power scenario is beyond comprehension, because it means a declaration of war,” Kosachev underscored.”

Proposed second draft is perhaps made deliberately so extreme in strategy to make bill fail, ie make bill impossible to pass senate and veto…

Of course it may also be simply barking nuts… Best bet is both, nothing says stupid is alone, rather idiots tend to gather…

Either way there will be no foreign ships entering by force or quarantining or closing those ports listed, nor searching any ships. Why?

Because the power has shifted, and everybody knows it.

I note that the governor of Alaska let slip that yesterdays Russian test of the US air defense zone constituted not only the two fighters and two TU95, but a “radar platform aircraft”. Five, not four aircraft.

Evidently his Excellency got a briefing from Elmsdorf AFB… later versions I have seen of this story do not mention the fifth aircraft, but even if they did…

“Radar platform” sounds to my mind like ECW/ECM, not “radar”…

Yes, training. Expensive but essential to train with the ECW …

The inescapable implication is that the Russian Air Force means business at very short notice. They’re not just training as one does in peacetime. This is also dangerous. Necessary, but also dangerous. Things go wrong…situational control can be lost and reactions mesh is terrible ways.

The zpc/nwo is making a huge amount of changes in the usa under the tuppence regime, mostly quietly, unlike this aipac bill. Most of the changes are not reported or little reported. These are moving the american, and eu, from being geared towards bullying weak countries back to full cold war era status of confrontation with powerful rivals. Very much back to the 1950s mentality (the current Russophobia, mimicing the mccarthyism), this being a very deliberate plan, and with all the fascist trappings.

Sudden military defeat of Empires in history had highly undesirable consequences for the mass of people as well as triggering famine, civil wars, revolutions…

The US is arguably simply one of the countries now occupied by the 4th Reich. It needs not defeat, but liberation through sound adult management. This is because 4th Reich prohibits sound management in occupied countries, not because the people don’t want it.

People who understand the US – who understand for example the split that took place, first with the railroads and the transcendentalists Melville’s White Whale and “the Confidence Man” , later with Wilson, the money and banks and imperialism, and finally with the Truman Coup (of which it remains forbidden to speak) and the several “corrections” since then, Kennedy boys, Martin, Trickydick, Carter…the “corrections” (that’s what Bush 41 called the JFK job and he ottaknow) understand that the US is occupied country.

RHC (Cuba) refrains “Free territory in the Americas!”… Well geewhiz fellas, they got a point there, ya know?

What might be a desirable defeat would be the defeat of the 4th Reich…not that I would ever dare to advocate for that, but it would be, ah, “innarestin’ “. That would not be a defeat for America, but a victory…

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